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Originally Posted by BlueMak
I wonder if AMD knew exactly what it was doing by purchasing ATI. I can see some very interesting possibilities with the whole SLI thing and Intel making a good graphics card on their own.
Fascinating theories.
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Some people in Nvidia are sweating quite heavily right now. As a dual card solution SLI is my number one choice, but Nvidia's relationship with Intel seems strained right now. If going on my reports and reports such as you saw posted on techreport it appears that Nvidia are deliberately locking out specific intel chipsets and forcing end users to use their own boards for SLi solutions, even when a large percentage of the enthusiast user base feel that Intel chipsets are a more elegant solution. Again this is just subjective chat here and not my own views on the subject.
If Intel are making a killer graphics card standalone solution for release in the near future it stands to be believable with their engineering and technical knowledge that it would be a rather good solution, if not perhaps in the early days of release. Their company value is reckoned to be 10 times that of Nvidia who are already worth 4 times as much as AMD (who are now worth less than what they paid for ATI), so going on this, there should be considerable resources for Intel R&D.
I would personally say that 2009/2010 is going to be fascinating for us consumers, I can't wait to see how this all plays out.